“Different, not less.” “Don’t dis my ability.” Much as I agree with their sentiments, sometimes I find memes irritating. Including ones like these. In trying to support difference and diversity, and promote an inclusive society, I feel that such memes can...

Life is full of highs that raise you in joyful exultation and lows that oppress you like a dark winter’s morning. And then, then there are the days when everything comes crashing down around your ears in the space of a few, brief words: “I have some bad news…” That...

Ok, I admit it. In the very early days of having kids, I sometimes fantasised about raising my own little von Trapp family of musicians. I grew up in a musical family myself. My siblings and I all played instruments, my sister and I sang, and my parents were musical....

Hi. I was wondering if I could ask you a question. Well, actually, I’d like to ask you a really big favour, and I hope I find the right words… So began my bumbling enquiry to a local café owner about some regular work experience for my daughter – a lumpy melange of...

TIme flies – blink, and it’s nearly the end of term. To be honest, I was dreading the beginning of this school year. Living in hope, but bruised by reality, I wasn’t looking forward to massaging my youngest boy into Year 7, or my oldest boy into Year...

Here we are at the end, the beginning, and more of the same. It’s the end of Term 4, the beginning of high school, and possibly six more years steering our youngest away from the vortex of negativity. From the first day, the final 2018 school term has been a tough gig...